So back in the early days of 3d printing (2012) had purchased a Solidoodle 3. Iused it for a few years. It sat unused due to issues had run into with it and eventually got rid of it. Since then I haven’t had a printer, but I’ve finally convinced myself that it is time to get one again. So l’m looking for suggestions for sub-$500 printers. While wouldn’t consider myself a newb, I am very rusty. I’m however not opposed to tinkering and am a huge fan of open source. What printers would people recommend? I’m personally thinking the Sovol SVO6+ but am open to other suggestions.
I’ve been looking at getting something new in this range also, and found the Kingroon KLP1, which is a fully enclosed Core XY design.
That’s not a brand I came across in my searches. I’ll have to look into it.
CoreXY has advantages over the typical RepRap-style 3-axis movement or bed-slingers. The frame is more rigid, so the print head can move faster while maintaining accuracy. The enclosure also lets you print higher temp materials with less warping.
IMO the big advantage of core xy is acceleration. My old i3 clone could print fairly fast, but my accelerations are way higher now, which lets me hit my (also higher) max speed faster and more frequently.
Not to mention the footprint. Bed slingers need a much larger workspace area in order for the extruder to reach the entire bed area. I’m a bot skeptical of the printer listed above though. It has a really tiny bed and not that great of print speed. Plus looking at the page they list things like “5:1 gear reduction” three separate times (who cares what the drive ratio is?) which leads me to believe it’s built with cheap parts and lacks a lot of features standard on even cheap Ender machines.
This is true. My 350mm^3 corexy is basically the same depth as my old 200mm^2 bedslinger.